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Madeline

Homesick for a place that doesn't exist

About Me

My full name is Guðlaug Hermannsdóttir and no american has been able to pronounce it correctly. There's only one other person who bears the exact same name and she is my grandmother. My name means bright as god and I don't even believe in god. I'm an Ace Face. If you know what that means I'll marry you. My favorite color is the combination of green and purple. I watch The OC and Scrubs religiously, but those are pretty much the only tv-shows I care about. I've lived in three countries apart from my own. I moved from my parents when I was fifteen, and out of the country when I was seventeen. I haven't been able to linger in one place since, and I'm still not sure if that's a problem. Stockholm is my favorite city, Paris is the runner-up. I have a love-hate relationship with America, and I always end up going back. My first paid job was growing plants for my grandfather, along with my cousin, when I was eleven years old. My best job was being a camp counselor and co-editor of the camp newspaper at a certain summer camp in Maine. My ideal profession would be an astronomer. I've recently developed a shoe fetish and finally I feel like a woman. I'm slowly becoming a vegetarian, without any extra efforts. I feel fulfilled. My biggest dream is to win a known film award, or at least be nominated. My favorite saying is "sometimes you just have to roll with it". I've owned a magic dress for ten years and it works every time. I love rain, making lists and when the Ikea catalog comes out in August. I own seven pairs of Converse shoes. I've seen every single Vin Diesel movie. I'd rather travel by train than plane. My stepmom is three years younger than I. My boyfriend is the real life Seth Cohen. My favorite smell is cute-boy armpit smell. Things keep getting better. If I could buy one item right now it'd be a scooter. I'd like to invent a machine that records dreams, and that includes day-dreams. I like sitting up front in movie theaters, 4th row is ideal. I want to get lost in a labyrinth. It was years until I realized that a ton of stones is not heavier than a ton of cotton. Don't get me started on a death-penalty debate unless you're ready to loose. I dont think it's necessary to treat other people the way you'd like to be treated because they might not have the same taste. I want to form a 60s/70s revival cult and move to the country-side. Who's with me?
I made this.
Alexander Kapranos is the sex.
Substitute for life.
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My Interests


movies
astronomy
traveling
nostalgia
dancing
late 60s - early 70s
modism
dandyism
books
music
serial killers
theme parties
amusement parks
summer camps
comic books
board games
arcades
making mix-cds
looking through old photos
crafts
cooking
shoes
bass-playing
riding my bike
concerts & festivals
mini-golf
vampires
animals
trees
quantum physics
string theory
riding at the back of pick-up trucks
photography
absolut ads
design

I'd like to meet:


Mods and beatniks

Music:


soul & motown
60s and 70s rock 'n' roll
jazz
electroclash
hip hop

Pixies
The Smiths
The Doors
Joy Division
Franz Ferdinand
The Zombies
The Knife
Snoop Dogg
50 cent
The Kinks
The Spencer Davis Group
The Who
The White Stripes
Yo La Tengo
The Cure
Interpol
Jeff Buckley
Johnny Cash
Serge Gainsbourg
Led Zeppelin
Stevie Wonder
The Modern Lovers
Brigitte Bardot
Jimi Hendrix
Hot Chip
Belle & Sebastian
Depeche Mode
Kings of Convenience
The Shins
Beck
Fisherspooner
Suede
Pulp
Blur
Supergrass
Prince

Movies:


Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain
Fight Club
Requiem for a Dream
Me and you and everyone we know
The Talented Mr. Ripley
A Clockwork Orange
Donnie Darko
The Matrix
Tillsammans
The Graduate
The Dreamers
Edward Scissorhands
Seven
Gerry
The Shawshank Redemption
Brokeback Mountain
The Weather Man
Living in Oblivion
Hustle and Flow
Little Miss Sunshine
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Cell
Natural Born Killers
12 Monkeys
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
The Life Aquatic
CQ
Babe
Back to the Future
Vuxna Manniskor
The Big Lebowski
Zoolander
Annie Hall
Quadrophenia
24 hour party people
Pi
Purple Rain
The Nightmare before Christmas
Elephant
Pleasantville
Tron
Following
Billy Elliot
Planet of the Apes
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Garden State
Napoleon Dynamite
I Broken Flowers
Shooting Fish
Bonnie and Clyde
Dirty Dancing
Queen of the Damned
Blow
Velvet Goldmine
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Directors:

Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubric
Darren Aronofsky
Tim Burton
Mike Leigh
Quentin Tarantino
Wes Anderson
Gus Van Sant
Richard Linklater
Todd Solondz
Woody Allen
Oliver Stone
Ang Lee
Kevin Smith
David Lynch
The Coen Brothers
David Fincher
Peter Jackson
Michael Mann
M. Night Shyamalan
Christopher Nolan
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Anthony Minghella
Spike Jonze
Richard Kelly
Paul Thomas Anderson
Lukas Moodysson

Television:


Twin Peaks
Scrubs
The OC
The Office
Jeeves and Wooster
Sex and the City
That 70's Show
My So-Called Life
Malcolm in the Middle
Spin City
X-files
So you think you can dance?

Books:


-American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
-Fight Club and Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
-Perfume by Patrick Suskind
-About a Boy by Nick Hornby
-From Pieces to Weight - 50 cent's biography
-The Hipster Handbook
-My Life Among the Serial Killers by Dr. Helen Morrison

Comics

-Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez
-Blue Monday and Scooter Girl by Chynna Clugston-Major
-Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
-Sandman by Neil Gaiman
-Lucifer by Mike Carey
-Everything by Jason

Heroes:



Oscar Wilde
50 cent
Vin Diesel
Special Agent Dale Cooper
Jack Skellington
Johnny Maniac